Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henning Mankell

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Helen Keller

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

Cat Power

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

Cat Power

I am human and I make mistakes.

Cat Stevens

In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

Cassandra Clare

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.

Cassandra Clare

Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

Cassandra Clare

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

George Eliot

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

George Eliot

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

George Eliot

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

Jody Watley

People said it would be the worst mistake of my life. I tried not to listen, but it stung me, being told I'd never make it as a solo act.

Mike Johnston

People tend to mistake Groundhog Day. It's not important. It's just important fun.

Someone tried to make me a monster back. And that was a mistake.

Oh, you can say that. But we made that flip, and it was done. It's the story of our season. Mistakes killed us.

They're making mistakes they won't be making in another two weeks.

They put pressure on us with their serve and we just made too many mistakes on the passing end.

They played hard. Offense and defense, they play hard. But you can't make mistakes and when you make too many and we made way too many any team can play with anybody. That's what happened.

They don't make many mistakes and that's what makes them successful.

I tried stuff, but it wasn't really working, so I waited for him to make a mistake. He was flat-footed.

Richard Seymour

It's very disappointing but we did it and mistakes are part of the game. It was very uncharacteristic of the way we've played in our run.

Kenny Rogers

It's not like it's the first mistake I've made in my life. I've never professed to being perfect.

They do as well as they can. Everybody's human, they make mistakes,

There were some mistakes, but for the most part I think I did all right out there,

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Roberto Benigni

This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English!

James E. Faust

Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others.... I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.

Jaromir Jagr

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Jaron Lanier

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

Janet Evanovich

I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

Janet Evanovich

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

Jane Pauley

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

Ernst Mayr

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.